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/ Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles (center) said Monday night that, “We have ancestors who did a lot of things but it’s up to us to make some changes about what we’re going to do now." The Charlotte City Council took a preliminary vote Monday night against a plan to eliminate single-family-only zoning that’s part of the controversial 2040 Comprehensive Plan. City staff has proposed eliminating exclusively single-family zoning to encourage more dense development and to diversify the housing stock in neighborhoods. But some residents have said the plan goes too far. They have said it would enc...

/ Charlotte Mayor Vi Lyles backs a plan to no longer send the city’s arts allocation to the Arts & Science Council. The Charlotte City Council Monday backed a plan to no longer send its annual money dedicated to the arts to the Arts & Science Council, a setback for the nonprofit that’s worked in Mecklenburg County since 1958. Last year, the city of Charlotte’s $3.2 million arts contribution made up about a quarter of the ASC’s $13 million budget. Faced with losing city support, the ASC asked people over the weekend to lobby council members to stop the plan, saying the city was creatin...

/ Flickr Republican state Superintendent Catherine Truitt, right, calls on school districts across North Carolina to bring students back for in-person classes as Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper looks on during a bipartisan press conference Feb. 2, 2021. A Quiet — But Busy — Week Was this past week the quiet before the storm, so to speak? Sure, there was a lot of news, but things were a bit slower, a bit calmer than perhaps we've grown accustomed to over the last year. It's OK to stop and breathe for a minute. The headlines will be coming at you full-speed soon enough: The Super Bowl is tonig...

Listen • 49:35 Some of this week's stories: Gov. Roy Cooper says it's time for kids to go back to school; Greg Phipps (bottom right) takes the vacant, at-large seat on Charlotte City Council; disparities in vaccine availability. On the next Charlotte Talks Local News Roundup: Gov. Roy Cooper says it’s time to send students in North Carolina back to the classroom. His announcement Tuesday was part of a bipartisan effort to address the toll remote learning is having on students, teachers and families. Charlotte City Council has named Greg Phipps as an at-large city counc...

Starting Wednesday, Charlotte leaders will start deciding what they want to fund as part of their budget process.